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Archive for December, 2011‘Tis the Season to Participate Online!Throughout this holiday season, we encourage you to participate in the exciting activities featured on the Citizen Archivist Dashboard, which is available starting today. Check it out and try tagging, transcription, editing articles, uploading digital scans, and participating in contests all related to the records of the National Archives. We hope that you’ll share any suggestions [...] Posted by Jessie on December 23, 2011, under Contests, DC-area Researchers, Digitization, Open Government, Our Archives Wiki, Social Media (Web 2.0), Tag It Tuesday, Wikipedian in Residence. What Are You Working On, Shirley Baker?Ever wonder what exciting new projects the many employees at NARA are working on? The “What are You Working On?” blog feature aims to introduce a variety of NARA employees and highlight some of the exciting projects we are working on around the agency. Check for this blog series on Wednesdays! Continuing our series-within-a-series on [...] Posted by Adam on December 21, 2011, under What Are You Working On Wednesdays. Tag It Tuesday! Elvis EditionTag It Tuesday’s all shook up! Our pals over at the Our Presidents tumbler are celebrating “Elvis in the Archives” week and we thought we’d join the fun. Sure, the King is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but you can also find him in the National Archives. Included in the Archives’ holdings [...] Posted by Denise on December 20, 2011, under Social Media (Web 2.0), Tag It Tuesday. NARA Coast to Coast: The Coupon Craze of the 1940sThe economy has been at the top of the newscasts, not to mention peoples’ thoughts, for several years now with no end in sight. Although there has been prosperity since World War II, during the difficult war years the government worked at keeping the economy under control. At the forefront of its efforts was the [...] Posted by Katie Dishman on December 19, 2011, under NARA Coast to Coast. Family Tree Friday: The 1940 Census–Were You at Work (Part 2)This week’s post comes once again from guest blogger Diane Petro, who is an Archives Technician in the Archives I Research Support Branch (RD-DC), Research Services, Archival Operations – Washington, DC. Diane helps staff the research rooms at the National Archives Building and has also been working on reference activities relating to the upcoming 1940 [...] Posted by John on December 16, 2011, under 1940 Census, Family Tree Fridays, Genealogy / Family History, Miscellaneous, Research. What Are You Working On, Jodie Steck?Ever wonder what exciting new projects the many employees at NARA are working on? The “What are You Working On?” blog feature aims to introduce a variety of NARA employees and highlight some of the exciting projects we are working on around the agency. Check for this blog series on Wednesdays! Continuing our series-within-a-series on [...] Posted by Adam on December 14, 2011, under What Are You Working On Wednesdays. DC Area Researcher Forum to be Held on January 27, 2012We hope that you will be able to join us for the next meeting of the Researcher Forum on Friday, January 27, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. in Room G-24 at Archives I in Washington, DC. Archivist David Ferriero will join us for a discussion of NARA’s Citizen Archivist program. A special feature of the program [...] Posted by Dawn on December 13, 2011, under DC-area Researchers, Open Government. Tag It Tuesday! Lights, Camera, Archives?Today’s Tag It Tuesday is going Hollywood! Did you know that every once in a while there’s a star sighting in the records of the National Archives? You just might find a poor little rich girl, a future Godfather, or a Top Gun making a guest appearance in our holdings. Tammy Kelly, a colleague from the Truman Library, [...] Posted by Denise on December 13, 2011, under NARA Staff Favorites, Social Media (Web 2.0), Tag It Tuesday. What Are You Working On, Tally Fugate?Ever wonder what exciting new projects the many employees at NARA are working on? The “What are You Working On?” blog feature aims to introduce a variety of NARA employees and highlight some of the exciting projects we are working on around the agency. Check for this blog series on Wednesdays! Continuing our series-within-a-series on [...] Posted by Adam on December 7, 2011, under What Are You Working On Wednesdays. Tag It Tuesday! Remembering Pearl HarborTomorrow marks the 70th anniversary of what President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed “a date which will live in infamy,” the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Navy. Thousands of American naval personnel were killed or wounded and U.S. ships and aircraft were sunk or damaged. As a result of the attack, the U.S. declared war on Japan and entered World War [...] Posted by Denise on December 6, 2011, under Online Research, Research, Social Media (Web 2.0), Tag It Tuesday. |
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